Appreciation is a wonderful thing:
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Quote by Voltaire
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Voltaire Quotes
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
- Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
- I have lost the half of myself - a soul for which mine was made.
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Best Quotes
- I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
- Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
- There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
- Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.
- I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.